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Originally Posted by Anonymouse

The Hermes job is really getting to me, because a) some of the time they've too many temps and I don't even work that night, and b) the train fare's nearly £70 a week.

However, I've just had a call from another agency offering me an induction tomorrow and, I hope, starting that same night! It's in Wigan, much closer, and hopefully a lot more regular! More details later!

There is one odd thing, though: I was asked on the form if I had any convictions, unspent or not. Under the terms of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (1974), I'm not at all sure they have any legal right to ask about spent convictions. Unspent, yes, but spent?

A spent conviction is a conviction which, under the terms of Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, can be effectively ignored after a specified amount of time. The amount of time for rehabilitation depends on the sentence imposed, not on the offence. ... Employers cannot refuse to employ someone with spent convictions.

https://www.askthe.police.uk/content/Q89.htm